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Vast disparity for Hope Canal Project

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Vast disparity for Hope Canal Project

FTCS $335M, BK $660M BK International has submitted the highest bid to supply ‘geotextiles’ for use in the construction of the Northern Relief Canal for the East Demerara Water Conservancy, while...

CLICO properties up for sale again

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on CLICO properties up for sale again

Today, President Bharrat Jagdeo will meet with affected policyholders of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) Guyana to discuss the “way forward”. However, shadow Finance Minister Winston...

Death penalty for Syfox as murder trial ends

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Death penalty for Syfox as murder trial ends

– defence likely to appeal After almost two weeks of intense arguments put forward by Defence Counsel Bernard De Santos SC, a mixed jury nevertheless found his client, Lennox Syfox, guilty of...

M&CC withholds workers’ NIS, PAYE deductions to pay wages and salaries

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC withholds workers’ NIS, PAYE deductions to pay wages and salaries

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) has been breaking the law in order to pay its workers their wages and salaries. City Mayor Hamilton Green admitted to this state of affairs...

Police hunt a third suspect in Sheema Mangar’s murder

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police hunt a third suspect in Sheema Mangar’s murder

– Two others still in custody By Latoya Giles Employees of the Demerara Bank last night staged a vigil at the scene where their murdered colleague, Sheema Mangar, breathed her last. Mangar died...

Dem boys seh…De Conquerors vex

Sep 16, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Conquerors vex

De Amazon Conquerors vex because dem boys cuss dem fuh de poor performance. Dem got a right to vex because dem mek a whole country vex wid how dem play. People lose money and some get high blood...

Human Services Ministry faults media

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services Ministry faults media

– Not enough focus on women, children’s issues – says Manickchand Access to officials and availability of information became a talking point yesterday at a Ministry of Human Services...

Strip bar security guard shot

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Strip bar security guard shot

A security guard attached to a popular Brazilian bar is nursing gunshot wounds he sustained after he prevented some known characters from entering without paying the admission fee. Marlon Shepherd,...

Education Ministry awards students for attendance, punctuality

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry awards students for attendance, punctuality

As Education Month continues under the theme “Child Friendly Home: Child Friendly Classrooms-Quality Education” the Ministry of Education distributed attendance and punctuality certificates and...

Guyana hope to extend Mumbai’s losing streak to keep semi-final hopes alive

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana hope to extend Mumbai’s losing streak to keep semi-final hopes alive

By Sean Devers in South Africa In association with Digicel, Carib Beer, Leisure Inn, Igloo Ice-Cream, Forest Enterprise,Dave West Indian Imports (NY), Cops Security & Universal DVD Club Despite...

Mike Parris to help train Commonwealth boxers

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Mike Parris to help train Commonwealth boxers

Michael Parris won Olympic Bronze in Moscow in 1980, some 30 years later his feat has not been matched by a Guyanese at the Olympics. Parris is known to be a hard worker, disciplined individual and...

AAG national youth, junior, seniors on this weekend

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on AAG national youth, junior, seniors on this weekend

The Athletic Association of Guyana’s (AAG) National Youth, Junior and Senior Championships will be held this weekend at the Police Sports Club, Ground, Eve Leary, where the crème of the crop...

GABA to aggressively market Pepsi Street Series

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GABA to aggressively market Pepsi Street Series

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) Pepsi-sponsored Street Series will commence next weekend at the Burnham Basketball Court following a series of heavy marketing and...

Fitzgerald on winner’s row

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Fitzgerald on winner’s row

Reigning national champion Sudesh Fitzgerald easily disposed 2nd place finisher Anil Latchman by a 2-0 margin in the finals of the Open Singles, while Afeez Majid emerged third in the latest Darts...

Teachers Union alleges ‘sinister’ motive in CPCE admission process

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers Union alleges ‘sinister’ motive in CPCE admission process

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is demanding that interviews for teachers to gain admission into the Associate Degree programme at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE), be stopped, unless...

Private sector to engage City Hall

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Private sector to engage City Hall

– intends to address issues of concern The inability to garner sufficient funds to adequately manage Georgetown is of immense concern to members of the private sector. This concern is the basis...

Floodlights team stage Fund-raising softball match tomorrow

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Floodlights team stage Fund-raising softball match tomorrow

Georgetown Floodlights Team will clash with East Coast Floodlights team in a fund-raising 25-over softball match tomorrow under lights at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda. The funds will go...

East Bank Berbice wants help in post flood era

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on East Bank Berbice wants help in post flood era

Residents of East Bank Berbice are pleading with the relevant authorities to review the situation that leads to flooding during spring tides. Almost the entire village of Light Town and Juliansburg,...

Ron Legall weighs in on the Sarwan issue

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Ron Legall weighs in on the Sarwan issue

DEAR MR.EDITOR, After I saw the caption RE- “Sarwan Snubbed “on the back page of the Wednesday’s Edition (September,1st,2010) of the Stabroek News Papers, I decided to read the article and...

Police probe non-action in death threat allegation

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police probe non-action in death threat allegation

The East Coast of Demerara police are investigating reports that ranks at the Vigilance Police Station failed to take action following death threats to Deon Stephens, who was eventually stabbed to...

When Cush comes to shove

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on When Cush comes to shove

By Peter Della Penna When Guyana took on Royal Challengers Bangalore last Sunday, there was a tremendous amount of support from fans back home on the northern coast of South America. But because of...

Career thief Trevor De Souza (Slick Willy) heads to jail

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Career thief Trevor De Souza (Slick Willy) heads to jail

Trevor De Souza, AKA “Slick Willy” of Lot 1Main Street, Cumberland, East Canje, was sentenced to jail on Monday. De Souza reappeared before magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam...

Nascimento pleased with improved fitness

Sep 16, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Nascimento pleased with improved fitness

President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento speaking with Kaieteur Sport at the National Park yesterday said that he has seen much improvement with the team since...

Venezuelan robbery/murder suspect dies

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan robbery/murder suspect dies

The 17-year-old Venezuelan suspect who robbed and murdered Guyanese miner, Michael Higgins, last week, died on Monday in the hospital where he was treated for gunshot wound to his leg. Reports...

Amerindian village now planting rice

Sep 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian village now planting rice

– 82 acres being harvested in pilot project In what is being described as a first for Guyana, a major project to grow rice in the Rupununi Savannahs, is literally reaping success, officials...

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A call for more cultural centres

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Burnham’s decision to divert the Indian Immigration Fund towards constructing the National... more